cluster bombs, as president biden heads overseas to shore up support for ukraine, he said the u.s. will send them a controversial weapon. it was a very difficult decision on my part. but sis the the right one? i ll ask michael mccaul and the only house member who votes against the afghanistan war, barbara lee, next. and party of one. republican set a date for the iowa caucuses where donald trump s rivals are trying to e he zeros in on his closest opponent. he s got no personality. does ron desantis has a plan to turn things around. my panel will discuss ahead. plus mercury rising. a record-breaking heat wave blankets the globe. and over seas janet yellen pushed china on climate. but is any country doing enough to stop the climate threat? hello, i m jake tapper in washington with the state of union is wondering about long-term consequences days after announcing his controversial decision to send cluster bombs to ukraine, a weapon his administration once refer
be engaging in war crimes if this goes forward? what i think is that we are would risk losing our moral leadership. because when you look at the fact that over 120 countries have signed the convention on cluster munitions saying they should never be used, they should never be used. and in fact, many of us have urged the administration to sign on to this convention. and so i m hoping that the administration will reconsider this because these are very dangerous bombs, they re dangerous weapons and this is a line that i don t believe we should cross. you notably were the only member of the u.s. house of representatives to vote against authorizing the war in afghanistan in 2001. now, of course, the state department report on the chaotic afghan withdrawal effort found that the biden administration failed to prepare for the worst case scenario and many of them